Religion and cultural studies

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Religion and cultural studies

edited by Susan L. Mizruchi

Princeton University Press, c2001

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262) and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780691005027

内容説明

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising: the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays - from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century - their common ground is the question of religion's place in current. American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Hamik, Richard Wightman Fox. Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.

目次

List od Contributors vii Introduction by Susan L. Mizruchi ix 1. Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds by Jonathan Z. Smith 3 2. Telling a Life through Haitian Vodou: An Essay Concerning Race, Gender, Memory, and Historical Consciousness by Karen McCarthy Brown 22 3. Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon by Jenny Franchot 56 4. The Place of Ritual in Our Time by Susan L Mizruchi 56 5. Human Solidarity and the Problem of Otherness 80 6. Ascetics, Aesthetics, and the Management of Desire by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 95 7. New Baptized: The Culture of Love in America, 1830s to 1950s by Richard Wightman Fox 8. "The Mystery of Life in All It's Forms": Religious Dimensions of Culture in Early American Anthropology by Gillian Feeley-Harnik 9. Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art by Jack Miles 192 10. The Altar of Sin: Social Multiplicity and Christian Conversion among a New Guinea People by Eytan Bercovitch 211 11. God On LIne: Locating the Pagan/Asian Soul of America in Cyberspace by Bruce B. Lawrence 236 Selected Bibliography 255 Index of Names 263
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780691005034

内容説明

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.

目次

List od Contributors vii Introduction by Susan L. Mizruchi ix 1. Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds by Jonathan Z. Smith 3 2. Telling a Life through Haitian Vodou: An Essay Concerning Race, Gender, Memory, and Historical Consciousness by Karen McCarthy Brown 22 3. Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon by Jenny Franchot 56 4. The Place of Ritual in Our Time by Susan L Mizruchi 56 5. Human Solidarity and the Problem of Otherness 80 6. Ascetics, Aesthetics, and the Management of Desire by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 95 7. New Baptized: The Culture of Love in America, 1830s to 1950s by Richard Wightman Fox 8. "The Mystery of Life in All It's Forms": Religious Dimensions of Culture in Early American Anthropology by Gillian Feeley-Harnik 9. Global Requiem: The Apocalyptic Moment in Religion, Science, and Art by Jack Miles 192 10. The Altar of Sin: Social Multiplicity and Christian Conversion among a New Guinea People by Eytan Bercovitch 211 11. God On LIne: Locating the Pagan/Asian Soul of America in Cyberspace by Bruce B. Lawrence 236 Selected Bibliography 255 Index of Names 263

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